Hi David, I am puzzled too. I have a bunch of scripts with references to the sox play command, and would like to continue using them, even though alsa is installed here with oss emulation. I record with arecord, but am tempted to take a look at ecasound, which everyone loves. Thanks for the info. Chuck On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, David Bruzos wrote: > Hi Chuck: > I am not sure why you are getting the /dev/dsp1 errors when using sox. > On my box, the play and rec commands work well with both sound cards > using the "-d" option to tell sox what card to use. However, I agree > with Janina, you should try to use the alsa interface to your soundcard > whenever possible. I use mplayer to play audio and ecasound to record > it. They both have good CLI interfaces and good support for the alsa > sound system. Oh, ecasound can also play sound at the same time that it > records, and it can play multiple sound files via different sound cards > at the same time too. You should really take a look at it. It is > a little tricky to use though. > > David B. -- The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (84% of Full) "Things are in the saddle, and they ride mankind." Ralph Waldo Emerson Personal site www.hhs48.com, Download site www.mhcable.com/~chuckh
